Sea World - New Ride 2020

[themagician]

All the trees are being cleared on the hill of COTD and excavation is underway, which makes me think, this could possibly be the location of a new attraction. SlyFlyer is only temporary, so to me makes sense 

[aaronm]

They heard about Dreamworld's new covered seating attraction and are building a bigger one to compete.

[Brad2912]

I don’t know what “it” is, but there is a new attraction going in for late 2019. Not a ride. Only word I’ve heard used to describe it is “a dome”.

Totally helpful hey..

[Max Egan]

Not a big enough space for another ride...

[themagician]

Maybe a bird aviary some sort of thing, this is there new plans for the WILD attraction, only 6 years late

[Max Egan]

@themagician what actually happened to that idea, they were advertising it when storm coaster was advertised. 

[themagician]

I could be wrong on this, but I believe the animals were coming from a zoo down south, and I think the deal/transfer fell through, so the attraction wouldn’t have actually had animals 

[MaxxTheMonster]

I thought it was that one of the polar bears got pregnant so they had to put the money for the wild attraction into the polar bear nursery instead.  Which was why DW ended up with the lions for that period of time?

[themagician]

I thought the Junior Driving School was what got delayed for the polar bear cube enclosure 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

1 hour ago, Brad2912 said:

I don’t know what “it” is, but there is a new attraction going in for late 2019. Not a ride. Only word I’ve heard used to describe it is “a dome”.

Totally helpful hey..

@Habitat Waterford? (ROFL)

 

[rappa]

I woodn’t count on the new attraction for this area being ready until next year. 

[themagician]

Bikash has just confirmed that something cool will be coming to this site 

[Baconjack]

Is this clearing to do with the apparent wooden coaster that has been rumoured to open at SW in the next couple years? The site doesn't look big enough for one right now, I'd want to think that somewhere else might be cleared for a ride.

[themagician]

But maybe they’ll close COTD,  or that will become part of the theme of the coaster. And they have all the reclaimed land just over the water, which could be used for it 

[Brad2912]

The clearing now isn’t for the 2020 ride. The clearing now isn’t for a ride 

1 hour ago, themagician said:

Bikash has just confirmed that something cool will be coming to this site 

Bet he said it would be super exciting haha

[Mc coaster]

1 hour ago, themagician said:

Bikash has just confirmed that something cool will be coming to this site 

Who or what it is Bikash?

[Brad2912]

2 minutes ago, Mc coaster said:

Who or what it is Bikash?

Bikash translates to eternal optimism

[Whombex]

2 hours ago, Mc coaster said:

Who or what it is Bikash?

Maaaaaybe Google "Bikash" and "Sea World"?? Who knows what it might reveal?

Edited March 21, 2019 by Glubbo

[Jdude95]

Who's this biccy rash that everyone's taking about?

[T-bone]

I believe a biccy rash is this - 

but on an Arnotts biscuit 

 

Clearly if big ash has said that though, then it’s clear, it’s a new chill out zone, but they can’t call it chill out zone, so instead it will be called the cool out zone.

[Tin Foil Hat]

I had a hunt around but couldn't find any place this fits. If this has already been discussed, I apologize.

It appears that Seaworld may have pushed its new ride back to 2020. Does anyone have any thoughts to what we might see?

Large scale family ride? New Coaster? 

 

[pushbutton]

As far as a place where it fits, it could go where Sea Viper was (so room for a decent coaster), or where Vikings Revenge was (room for a reasonable size water ride or coaster), and that's not including the reclaimed land or the numerous smaller areas where other types of rides could go. 

[Tin Foil Hat]

What exactly happened with Vikings? I'm assuming it was to do with TRR, but was there ever a public released reason for that ride closing? Could they get someone like Intamin to refurbish it?

[pushbutton]

16 minutes ago, Boyden Hingston-Muir said:

What exactly happened with Vikings? I'm assuming it was to do with TRR, but was there ever a public released reason for that ride closing? Could they get someone like Intamin to refurbish it?

Might have been because they rebuilt most of the track in house when Storm was built. 

After the Dreamworld tragedy, it quickly became apparent that one of the contributing factors was that Dreamworld made their own modifications to Thunder River Rapids which hadn't been approved by the manufacturer! 

At a guess, Sea World probably decided it's not a good idea to do that! 

[Brad2912]

There will be a new attraction this year, but the big signature investment will open late 2020.

vikings Won’t return and I’d expect within about 12 months there will be no traces of it left